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Director, Marketing & Communications at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering [ uchicagopme.bsky.social ] Posts are my own | ✶✶✶✶

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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

Disease doesn't care who you voted for -- please #vote to fully fund #healthcare & #Cancer #research. 🧪 scienceimpacts.org

26.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research. Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”

This is incredibly shortsighted and dangerous - “The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

11.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…

The Trump administration’s freezing in April of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grant money from the National Institutes of Health.

07.06.2025 23:30 — 👍 45    🔁 33    💬 5    📌 2
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Woman’s life-saving treatment delayed by Trump cuts to NIH: ‘Cancer shouldn’t be political’ Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has raised the alarm over how patients in the agency’s clinical trials are facing setbacks in treatment

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

28.05.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Price of Remission When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

www.propublica.org/article/revl...

09.05.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Social Media Manager Department PME Content & Media About the Department The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) was established in May 2019 and evolved from the Institute for...

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering is hiring a Social Media Manager to join our growing Marketing and Communications team.

To learn more and apply, visit: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

#Hiring #SocialMedia #ScienceCommunication #STEM #AcademicSky

07.05.2025 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell Your Rep: Restore Funding for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Please consider contacting your representatives in Congress to restore this critical #cancer research funding. #pancan

It's easy, click here: p2a.co/zwkiYw4

06.05.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Experimental cancer drugs found to help some patients avoid surgery Patients with some gastrointestinal tumors were able to be treated with immunotherapy drugs alone and avoid surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, the study found.

This is incredible news: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

29.04.2025 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.

Can’t we at least agree to fund cancer research? www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t...

24.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Future of Pancreatic Cancer Research is in Jeopardy PanCAN Chief Scientific & Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit writes about the critical federal funding at risk and what this means for patients with pancreatic cancer.

pancan.org/news/the-fut...

20.03.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

www.wired.com/story/wired-...

17.03.2025 02:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

16.03.2025 14:09 — 👍 32870    🔁 7740    💬 832    📌 838
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Cancer vaccine shows hope: Make the investment A study published last month in Nature highlighted the potential for a new personalized pancreatic cancer vaccine. The trial was tiny, just 16 patients, but it’s ...

lasvegassun.com/news/2025/ma...

16.03.2025 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is a tragedy. #cancer #pancan

13.03.2025 02:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please call you representatives -- this action is incredibly harmful to people who can't afford to wait. #PanCan #Cancer

11.03.2025 15:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thousands “Stand Up for Science” across the country Including Nobel laureates, climate researchers, and parents of kids saved by groundbreaking drugs.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

11.03.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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America will pay dearly for Trump's mindless war on science Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

07.03.2025 03:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

28.02.2025 13:57 — 👍 5986    🔁 2030    💬 109    📌 102
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80% of pancreatic cancer research comes from the federal government—funding that’s now at risk. Don’t let progress stop. 🚫💜

Tell Congress: Protect and increase research funding NOW! Take two minutes to message your members of Congress and share why this matters to you. p2a.co/PDtC4d7

25.02.2025 18:52 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3
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UChicago Medicine first in Midwest to offer TIL cancer treatment Doctors remove a piece of the tumor and extract some of those TIL cells. Then, they boost them in a lab. Give the patient chemotherapy and put the TIL cells back in the patient, where they fight the t...

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/vide...

18.02.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They're now cancelling key meetings at the NIH to give the green light for future cancer research

13.02.2025 21:35 — 👍 739    🔁 286    💬 26    📌 13
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Cuts to federally funded biomedical research put progress at risk. Pancreatic cancer patients can’t afford to wait. We stand with pancreatic cancer patients, their families and the research community. Learn more and take action at pcan.at/vl3moc

12.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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This is helpful guidance for building an effective #GenAI prompt:

13.01.2025 20:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time.” - Jean-Michel Basquiat

22.12.2024 16:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Middle Path for AI People Love to Spin Tales of AI Doom or AI Utopia, But It's Time to Take a Realistic Look at AI. Reality is Often Stranger Than Fiction.

This is an interesting post about where #AI is now and where it’s headed. danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-middle...

16.12.2024 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Only one week left to submit your app to the #UChicagoPME PhD in Molecular Engineering program, perfect for grad students looking to focus in Material Systems for Sustainability and Health, Immunoengineering, or Quantum Science and Engineering. pme.uchicago.edu/academics/ph...
#EngineertheFuture

27.11.2024 16:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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